Page Cleaning and Checkpointing Strategies

Updated May 4, 2026

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The process of flushing dirty pages from the buffer pool to disk.

Fuzzy checkpointing allows InnoDB to flush pages in small batches to avoid sharp performance drops (I/O spikes) that occurred with full checkpoints.

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